Re: off topic: need someone to recover Windows for a friend

How old is the laptop? One big thing you can run into trouble is the driver
for the hard drive, I dont think XP disks have any SATA drivers, so you need
a slipstreamed disk. nlite can do that if you have a) an xp disk and b) the
correct sata drivers

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Erin Drummond <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes thats typically how you install them, however the manufacturers
> usually make them a part of the Windows OEM install - and therefore
> they are hidden away in some compressed archive on the recovery disk.
> You can verify this by inserting the recovery disk and telling Device
> Manager to search the cd for drivers (im guessing it wont find any).
>
> So yeah, in my opinion your best bet (if you cant simply boot from the
> recovery disk and use it to reformat the harddrive/install its version
> of windows) is to get the drivers from the manufacturers website
> (perhaps on your internet connection if her dialup is too slow) and
> follow the installation instructions that will probably be provided.
>
> Also, if you google the laptop model number and look for the hardware
> specifications, that should tell you what motherboard is
>
> Erin
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Rose McGillicuddy
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 8 November 2010 21:01, Erin Drummond <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Give her linux, its bundled with pretty much all the drivers you need :)
> >>
> >> In my experience, recovery disks are useless because the manufacturers
> >> bundle a whole lot of crapware with them which you have to spend ages
> >> uninstalling (unless you want the computer to run as slow as molasses)
> >>
> >> What I would do is google the model number and download the drivers
> >> from the manufacturers website
> >>
> >> (also, I dont know anyone who wastes their time with windows anymore -
> >> sorry)
> >>
> >> Erin
> >>
> > Yeah well I tried to convince her Linux would do everything but she was
> on
> > dial up!!    I think, if not for that she would be using Linux right now.
> >
> > Interesting what you say about the  "bundles" as , even as a novice, I
> would
> > have thought that installing the drivers shouldn't be too difficult - ie
> > from device manager
> >
> > Annoyed that I didn't get it going though
> >
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